http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/09/28/a-comment-on-comments/ Stay curious! Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:51:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/09/28/a-comment-on-comments/#comment-16 Nathaniel Schwartz Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:21:02 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/09/28/a-comment-on-comments/#comment-16 <p>I think I know what you are talking about. I know some people here at VCU who used 1300 lines of code to do what I did in about 300 lines; a more experienced (in my case Java) programmer could probably have weeded it down to 150. I am of the opinion that less code is more elegant and easier to understand most of the time. Sometimes it helps to clarify if you step things out a little bit more. As for comments, I guess it's hard to comment if you don't know what your code is doing!</p> I think I know what you are talking about. I know some people here at VCU who used 1300 lines of code to do what I did in about 300 lines; a more experienced (in my case Java) programmer could probably have weeded it down to 150. I am of the opinion that less code is more elegant and easier to understand most of the time. Sometimes it helps to clarify if you step things out a little bit more. As for comments, I guess it’s hard to comment if you don’t know what your code is doing!

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